January 4 happened to be the half-day of the Premier League, compared with the Big6, which was almost collectively cold in this round, the battle between Brighton and Everton may not be as important.
Not being noticed, however, for the "Seagull" Japanese international Kaoru Sanzo, it is destined to be a new milestone in life.
It is still the iconic long drive straight into the continuous breakthrough, and it is still the only shooting route in the penalty area to easily break through the net. Kaoru Misaki was elected the best player in the game and became the third Japanese player in history to score consecutive goals in the Premier League.
As the "three-goal king" in the mouth of the fans, he is actually an "anti-traditional" Japanese international footballer-Samsaki Kaoru was born in a university team and only went abroad at the age of 24, but his adaptation to the Premier League is beyond everyone’s expectations
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The well-deserved king of popularity
How popular is Kaoru Misaki?
In the last game against Arsenal, Brighton put the Japanese international in the most prominent center position on the warm-up poster before the game. Even McAllister, who is the main force of the World Cup champion team, can only
Serve as the green leaf foil male number one.
After the game, Fuan Jianyang, a teammate of the national team who has been abroad for many years and is more famous, took the initiative to find Kaoru Sanji and exchanged jerseys with him.
Although Kaoru Misaki was already a member of Brighton as early as 2021, he was first rented to St. Gilles to feel the atmosphere. He did not participate in the team’s dark horse galloping season until he emerged in the world preliminaries.
And after Brighton lost a number of core players this summer, Kaoru Misaki was able to register in the Premier League.
At the beginning of the season, Porter, as the "chief architect" of Brighton, trusted more wide players such as Trossard, Gross, and Marsh, but Kaoru Misaki quickly won the coach with his solid performance.
take seriously.
The altruistic Japanese international is almost never greedy for success, and is always willing to hand the ball to teammates in better positions.
And with Porter going to Chelsea to teach, the newly appointed De Zelby gave Kaoru Misaki more opportunities to perform.
The battle against the Wolves in November last year was a decisive battle for Kaoru Misaki to establish his starting position.
In that game, Kaoru Sanzao beat the former Barcelona player Semedo. Not only did he contribute 2 indirect assists on the left, but he also beat the Portuguese to score the first Premier League goal.
At the last moment, the frustrated Semedo applied for a red card for himself with an extremely amateur hug and wrestling after being broken by Kaoru Misaki.
In that game, Kaoru Sanzaki had a pass success rate of 86%, 2 key passes, a breakthrough success rate of 67%, 3 successful 1-on-1 steals, 5 times of regaining the ball, and 7 successful ground confrontations.
He was elected the best player without any suspense, which also made those who questioned his thin body and poor confrontation self-defeating.
"In my opinion Kaoru Misaki is one of the best players I’ve ever seen in a 1-on-1, as long as he gets the ball on the left he can go past anyone. It was also seen in the World Cup when he
When he takes the ball and breaks through, the opponent’s defender is often exhausted, he is a very special existence." Teammate Gross was full of praise for Kaoru Sanba.
Another astonishing figure is that in the not-so-much playing time this season, Kaoru Sanzaki contributed the top 15 tackle attempts among Premier League wingers, of which 14 tackles were completed cleanly, and none
foul.
High education = high achievement?
The reason why Sanji Kaoru is "other people’s child" is that apart from his ability to play football, his academic qualifications are enough to make his peers envious.
Although he has been in the Kawasaki striker echelon since middle school, the junior high school and high school he entered were not traditionally strong football schools; and in his adult year, Kaoru Sanzo unexpectedly gave up his goal of directly entering the Kawasaki first team.
Opportunity, choose to enroll in the University of Tsukuba.
"I didn’t have the confidence to gain a foothold in Kawasaki’s first team at that time, especially when I saw that the two seniors (Koji Miyoshi and Akira Itakura) were working very hard to qualify for the first team. Considering the future, I think it is better to go to Kawasaki.
University of Tsukuba is better."
"Of course, I still dream of becoming a professional athlete, becoming a representative of the national team, or even studying abroad, but at that time I felt that studying at the University of Tsukuba for four years would allow me to look at myself and football more objectively."
Although he didn’t choose a "shortcut", the four-year college career has tempered Kaoru Sanji far more than just his ball skills.
On a university campus that emphasizes teamwork more and does not show off individual abilities, Kaoru Sanzo learned to use passing to drive his teammates.
He once scored twice in the Emperor’s Cup and led the school team to defeat the J2 team Sendai Vegalta; at the same time, he also represented the Japanese team in the 2017 World University Games and won the gold medal.
Sanji Kaoru was also in college, wearing a GoPro to dribble the ball, and compared it with the data of other teammates. Through data collection, he completed a thesis entitled "Research on Information Processing of the Attacking Party in the 1-on-1 Football Scenario"
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This may also explain why Sanbo Kaoru, who lacks absolute explosive power and does not seem to be gorgeous enough to surpass people, can always use rhythm changes and multiple shakings to complete continuous success, and touch the ball extremely accurately in a small space.
Facing Spain in the World Cup, it was Kaoru Sansa who saved the ball that was about to go out of bounds and helped the Japanese team beat Spain.
The next top Asian
Although there is an army of returnees with the largest scale and quality in Asia, the Premier League has always been the most difficult peak for Japanese players to conquer for more than 20 years.
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